Listen to this:
Okay, I admit it—I grew up isolated from reality; in my whitebread SoCal suburb, the outside world may as well have been the moon. Not surprisingly, then, musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron didn’t find his way onto my record player. I hadn’t even heard of him until recently. Makes me wonder: What else have I missed?
Obviously a precursor to rap, which I’ve never gotten [...]
In a recent gartenfische post about art and the true self, I said that music has to feel real to be meaningful for me. Anyway, to further underscore the point, here is a glorious video e-mailed to me by a family member. The following commentary accompanied the link:
“A real gem!!! Absolutely amazing. For those of you who do [...]
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What are your three favorite Christmas songs and who sings them?
Of course, I have to start right out cheating. There are so many great Christmas songs that I decided instead to list favorite Christmas albums.
Christmas Portrait by the Carpenters (The Carpenters may have been 70s corny, but she had the most gorgeous voice and this [...]
